: about 2007, amongst the collection of NOS 1970's Breitlings Old
: World Jewelers (Chicago, IL) bought at auction in Zurich around
: 2000. This model (7103) was being sold by them for $895 up until
: 2007 which was a great bargain. It rose to $1295 when they began
: to run out of stock in June of 2008. They had several Breitling
: models for sale including "Chrono-matic" Navitimers,
: #2105 SuperOceans, #2034 Datora's and so on. When Willy
: Breitling chose to shut down Breitling in the late 1970's due to
: ill health (he died a short time later) and the quartz crisis,
: he put a large stash of unsold inventory in storage where it
: remained until sold at auction in 1996, by a Joseph Iten. Ron
: Geweniger of Old World Jewelers later bought them from, I
: believe, the auction of the estate of Joseph Iten. When I first
: saw ads for this special collection of NOS watches back in the
: mid-2000's (in Wristwatch Annual 2004 and 2005 and, the 2004,
: 2005, 2006 Complete Price Guide to Watches by
: Shugart/Engle/Gilbert) I was skeptical that they were real!
: Finally, in 2007 I realized that they were indeed the real thing
: so I ended up buying three models myself. I wish I had bought
: more! I love their ad copy which reads "Here's your chance
: to turn back the hands of time"!
: Here are scans of the two ads

: This one is from 2004

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: And, from 2003

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